Substance abuse prevention system still missing in schools












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            November 11, 2011, By: Lucie Kettnerová, Section: i-Forum informs

            A conference was held on November 7 and 8 co-organized by the Centre for Addictology of th
            Clinic of the 1st Faculty of Medicine and the Charles University General Teaching Hospital
            Prague, and the SCAN Association, with the aim to answer the question as to whether we wil

            to produce an interdisciplinary and inter-ministerial model of prevention in Czech schools
            day, all seats in the main hall in the Prague municipal authority building were occupied, 
            education and non-profit sector workers were really concerned with the issue of addictions

            At the start of the conference the chief hygiene officer and deputy health minister Michae
            speech pointing, amongst other issues, at the alarming rise in the number of teenage smoke

            girls. He noted that child obesity is another major problem that will need to be tackled i
            only by schools. “We should stop and think about that and increase our children’s physical
            sad that my desk is full of complaints about children being noisy and misbehaving, about t

            from exercise, which part of the Czech population does not like to see,” Vít said. Accordi
            sort of restriction of exercise puts children off physical activity.
            The director of the General Teaching Hospital in Prague Mgr. Dana Jurásková, PhD., MBA sai

            healthcare professional I feel that prevention has got out of control. If you look at the 
            the Czech population, there is only so much they are willing to do. Healthcare workers and
            almost given up on prevention. However, we still rank among the best as far as addiction t

            concerned, but we are failing in putting the Czech population off addictions.”
            Doc. PhDr. Michal Miovský, PhD., head of the Centre for Addictology, called on the partici
            discuss the viability of the proposed Minimum Prevention Programme for primary schools. Th

            was introduced at the conference from two perspectives: the exact definition of a primary 
            professional and the future structure of the prevention programme.
            The conference agenda was divided into specialized lectures and creative workshops which t

            were able to choose from according to their own interest. On Tuesday November 8, the confe
            at the Prague City Hall headquarters on Mariánské náměstí.